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Catfish 0.6 features a complete rewrite, easier translations, and better-than-ever stability and performance. And if you speak another language besides English, it needs your help. Find out more!

What’s New in Catfish 0.6?

Completely rewritten from the ground-up.

Replace the UNIX ‘find’ command with Python’s os.walk. This makes everything faster and more responsive. The “Deep Search” button is now also gone.

The sidebar now uses the theme style as well as symbolic icons (when available).

The interface has also had a number of other tweaks, further refining it into a professional-grade application.

File names can now be dragged from the search results into other applications.

Files can now be deleted from the results window.

To speed things up, these above items and other file actions can now also be performed on multiple files at once.

Strings have been simplified and made clearer, making the application easier to translate into other languages.

Last but not least, this is the first version of Catfish that can be run with either Python 2 or 3.

Catfish is faster, cleaner, leaner, and meaner.

Translations Needed

With the newly-optimized interface and strings, there’s a need for new translations. There are more strings than ever before, and I think that the number of users is growing as well. As such, there is a growing need for more localizations than ever before. And, all of the old translations are no longer compatible...

So, if you or a friend are interested in contributing, improving, or suggesting translations to the next release, check out the Launchpad translations page! Creating and modifying translations is really as simple as can be with their handy interface. And hurry, because this next release will likely happen this weekend and will include all completed translations!

Catfish 0.6 features a complete rewrite, easier translations, and better-than-ever stability and performance. And if you speak another language besides English, it needs your help. Find out more!

What’s New in Catfish 0.6?

Completely rewritten from the ground-up.

Replace the UNIX ‘find’ command with Python’s os.walk. This makes everything faster and more responsive. The “Deep Search” button is now also gone.

The sidebar now uses the theme style as well as symbolic icons (when available).

The interface has also had a number of other tweaks, further refining it into a professional-grade application.

File names can now be dragged from the search results into other applications.

Files can now be deleted from the results window.

To speed things up, these above items and other file actions can now also be performed on multiple files at once.

Strings have been simplified and made clearer, making the application easier to translate into other languages.

Last but not least, this is the first version of Catfish that can be run with either Python 2 or 3.

Catfish is faster, cleaner, leaner, and meaner.

Translations Needed

With the newly-optimized interface and strings, there’s a need for new translations. There are more strings than ever before, and I think that the number of users is growing as well. As such, there is a growing need for more localizations than ever before. And, all of the old translations are no longer compatible...

So, if you or a friend are interested in contributing, improving, or suggesting translations to the next release, check out the Launchpad translations page! Creating and modifying translations is really as simple as can be with their handy interface. And hurry, because this next release will likely happen this weekend and will include all completed translations!

Here we go with the Windows build following Midori 0.4.8. For the first time, an experimental 64-bit version is available – no HTML5 video just yet. FlashGet is supported as an external download manager: just like on Linux and BSD, in the Preferences under the Extensions tab it can be activated.

Again, portable mode is officially supported. The 7z versions include a “portable.bat” which runs Midori out of the folder. It can be copied to a USB stick and will keep all data in the “profile” folder in the same folder instead of storing files in the system user folder.

As they say, the exception proves the rule. Consequently Midori 0.4.8 fermented a little longer than most releases. The number of bug fixes is too plenty to make for a good read: let it be said that bugs in 0.4.7 with opening Midori in different modes, GLib-related build errors and forever delayed pages are gone – now on to the new features.

Autocompletion includes open tabs now, is generally more responsive and open to more extensions in the near future. Speaking of extensions, Netscape plugins can be individually enabled and disabled seemlessly.

Icon loading received a major refactoring, bookmarks and search engines mostly wave goodbye to the well-known “default icon”.
Support for Granite 0.2 was improved big time. As a treat, autocompletion features a side-by-side layout.
To round things up, inline search highlights all matches by default to increase readability and the urlbar tries harder to keep selected text working as expected.

Spoiler alert: The Win32 version will support FlashGet. Updated builds are still in the making. Incidentally if you missed it, on Linux wget, SteadyFlow or any other command line-accessible external download manager can be used.